Improved table



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` Letters Patent No. 98,948, dated January 18, `1870,

IMPROVED TABLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettei'ePatent making part of the same'.

To all whom it 'may concern Besitknown that I, LAMBERT FREEMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invent-ed a new and useful Improvement in Tables; -and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which `will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this 'speciiicatiom in which- Figure l is atop View of" my-improved Jcable.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of the same, taken through tbe line a: x, iig. 1. g

Figure 3 is adetail sectional View of the same, taken through the line y y, fig. 1.

.Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

the ends o the top and leaves of the table, are tongued and grooved, as shown in iigs. 2 and 3, and in dotted lines in iig. 1. The pieces D are `so formed that their grain may cross the grain .of the said top and leaves, as shown in figs. 1, 2, and 3, so that the' said pieces may strengthen'the top and leaves of the table, and prevent them from warping or cracking, and thus strengthen the table, and make it much more durable. Eare detachable leaves, which are so formed as to fit upon the ends of the table, to which they are conl nected with dowel-pins, to insure the top of `the table being always smooth.

F are short inetallic bars, which are swivelled to F being screwed to the leaves E, as shown in the drawings, so as` to swivel the said bars. G to the said. `leaves When the leaves'E are attached to vthe ends of the table, the bars G are swung out into the position shown in figs. 1 and 2, and enter and lit into recesses formed in the inner sides of the upper ends of the legs, so as to lie along the under side ofthe top B, and thus support the leaves E. Vhenlthe leaves E are detached from the table, the bars G are swung one-quarter around, so as to be beneath the said leaves E, allowing the said leaves and their attached 4bars to be slipped in through an opening in the upper crossbars of the frame A, beneath the top B, where they rest upon cross-bars a', attaehedto the lower edges of the side bars of the frame A, so as to be entirely out of the. Way, and,at the saine time, ready and convenient when required for use.-

By this4 arrangement, an ordinary table may bereadily and cheaply converted into an.extension-table,,and

without at all changing its appearance or convenience when used as an ordinary table.

Having thus described my invention, AI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-l The combination of the detachable. leaves Eend pivoted bars G l, with each other and with the end or ends of a table, substantially as herein shown and A described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 7th day of December, 1869.

LAMBERT FREEMAN..

Witnesses:

Gnonen W. MABEE, JAMES T. GRAHAM. 

